Sensationalized news reporting by Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.
What is yellow journalism?
100
Believed the U.S. should take its own colonies before there was nothing else left to grab.
What is American "imperialist"?
100
Filipino rebels fought against their new colonial rulers until they were finally defeated in...
What is 1902?
100
In 1899, Hay announced the
What is "Open Door" Policy?
100
Small island in the Caribbean Sea, I00 miles long by 35 miles wide. It became an American possession after the Spanish American War in 1898.
What is Puerto Rico?
200
An explosion that killed 258 U.S. sailors.
What is the sinking of the Maine.
200
President of the Naval War College, was America’s leading advocate for imperial expansion.
Who is Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan?
200
Lawyer who worked to limit native Hawaiians' rights in 1887 and had helped to overthrow the Queen.
Who is Sandford B. Dole?
200
"Open Door" Policy, gave equal trading rights to all foreign nations in...
What is China?
200
The Isthmus of Panama, the narrowest point in Central America, was the best place to build the...
What is Panama Canal?
300
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt
300
To seize control of Pacific trade routes, and to dominate the Caribbean region, Mahan wanted to construct...
What is the Panama Canal?
300
Dole served as Governor of Hawaii from 1900 to 1903. One of his cousins developed the...
What is Dole pineapple company?
300
The Boxer Rebellion threatened the lives of foreigners living in...
What is China?
300
Construction of this 51-mile length canal took 10 years (1903-1914) to complete, at a cost of thousands of lives and $400 million.
What is the Panama Canal?
400
Theodore Roosevelt raised a volunteer force, known as the...
What is "Rough Riders."
400
Opponents of colonialism, like Mark Twain and Andrew Carnegie.
Who are "anti-Imperialists"?
400
Taken from Spain by the United States during the Spanish-American War. Today, it is an unincorporated territory of the United States.
What is Guam?
400
Landed in Japan with American gunships in 1853 to open Western trade and influence.
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
400
Encouraged bankers to invest in the countries of the Caribbean region. His use of American investment to promote American foreign policy goals became known as "dollar diplomacy."
Who is President Taft?
500
Spanish-American War marked the end of Spain's colonial empire and the emergence of the U.S. as
What is a world power.
500
American Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 opposed the acquisition of...
What are colonies.
500
These Pacific islands provided valuable naval bases and refueling stations for American ships traveling to Asia.
What are Samoa and Midway islands?
500
President won the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the Russians and Japanese together to a peaceful settlement in the Treaty of Portsmouth (1905).
Who is President Roosevelt?
500
Sent an America Expeditionary Force into Mexico under General John J. Pershing to apprehend Pancho Villa.